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He was a couple of votes from winning and played the second half of the year with a broken thumb… cool your jets

Pies have been fantastic all year… I envy their run and dare… dees played the second half of 22 with concrete boots

If the swans play at the same level as second have vs dees then they’ll win… Both sides have built their game to suit the G.. maybe dees need to do the same

It’s bizarre that they didn’t build Casey fields with the same dimensions as the G…

Spot on

Have they finished the works on the oval?

@Watson11 brings up a good discussion: “Would love some discussion on why the G is such a bogey ground for us against good teams. Since Goody has been coach we have had 4 wins and 21 losses against sides that finished top 6 that year. Is it psychological, or is our game plan fundamentally flawed and too easy to pick apart by the best teams on the wider ground? PS Please don’t roll out the myth that we play Optus well and it’s the same width because it isn’t (it’s 130m wide versus the G’s 141m)” The way our defence is structured relies on intercept marking and zoning off players. The smaller the ground the easier it is to do. Unfortunately the MCG with its wider boundaries means there are more chances to isolate our defenders and play one-on-one. Larger grounds also need either very quick players or elite foot skills… we don’t have either

Do you think a young inexperienced player from Casey would have fixed our issues??? no player in the world can fox the games style and ball movement

Doesn’t do enough??? What are your expectations of a 20 year old ruckman?

America has 300m people and 32 nfl teams… that’s 1 team per 10m people. Australia has 1 team for every 1.5m… please tell me how 19 teams is sustainable?

Your expectations are unrealistic… you do realise trac is 5th favourite to win the Brownlow?

I went to the Geelong game on the weekend and they also didn’t cheer as loud as pies fans… go to some non Melbourne games and you’ll see there isn’t much difference.::

Our best midfielder broke his leg after 10 minutes… trac is a Pivotel cog in the machine… if trac didn’t break his leg dees would have won…

You do realise no player is 100% this time of year?

He laid a tackle 10 mins in the 2nd got a free kick and went straight for his throughly in pain. Essentially 2 men down at this stage

Didn’t sound too confident… I can’t see him getting up by Friday and taking the risk… the coaches need to back in the team with trac

Sydney averages the second highest tackles per game with 62… on Friday night they broke their yearly record with 84. This is an extra ordinary amount of pressure… wouldn’t surprise me if this was the highest of any team this year… with that amount of pressure, no team would have beaten them last night

Anyone listen to levers post game interview… he seemed to take the positives from the game

Was noise an issue when we beat hawthorn and Geelong in 2018?? Was noise an issue when we were up by 12 points in the 3rd quarter…? crowds are generally noisy when winning and quite when losing… we were losing for most of the 2nd half.. no shock that the fans were quite

Hello norm smith…

So essentially we played with our best midfielder on one leg for the whole match… Huge impact on the end result

When did this happen? Which quarter?

You don’t get suspended if you don’t hit the head…. Watch the replay

There was a joke going around that dees admin were pushing the AFL to change our home ground to Optus stadium. All jokes aside it seems that the dimensions of the MCG don’t suit our game plan. We struggled there last year and baring a couple of matches this year we haven’t been able to string 4 good qtrs together. It seems to me that the extra width of the ground breaks down our defensive structure and exposes our backline. The larger ground also mitigates our explosive mids. This has become more than a coincidence and needs to be addressed in the off season.

Difficult to get the crowd enthused when you are comprehensively beaten for 3 qtrs.